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Facebook announced on October 31 that it has made it easier and safer for users to gain access to its social network by using a dedicated Tor hidden service at https://facebookcorewwwi.onion. A dedicated hidden service access point is a powerful move to protect journalists and anyone else who uses Tor to protect privacy or circumvent censorship.

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San Francisco, November 3, 2014 - The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Facebook's move to enable access via a Tor hidden service, which came into effect on Friday. The step protects journalists and other users who are at risk of surveillance, censorship, or online attack.

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Let's be
clear: Everything journalists do in the digital world is open to scrutiny by
suspicious minds because that's the way intelligence agencies work. If state eavesdroppers
didn't make use of this amazing opportunity they wouldn't be very good at their
job.

Alhamdulillah! Finally,
a technologist designed a security tool that everyone could use. A
Lebanese-born, Montreal-based computer
scientist, college student, and activist named Nadim Kobeissi had developed a
cryptography tool, Cryptocat, for the
Internet that seemed as easy to use as Facebook Chat but was presumably far
more secure.

In August, Google introduced a new, if rather obscure,
security feature to its Chrome web browser, designed to
be triggered only under extreme circumstances.

If you were talking to Google's servers using the web's
secure "https" protocol, your browser makes a number of checks to
ensure that you are really talking to
Google's servers. Like an overly obsessive bouncer, the new code double-checks
the identity of any supposed Google site against a Chrome-only list of valid
Google identities hardwired into the browser.

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Journalists and online news-gatherers have been struggling
to collect and distribute high-quality information about recent events in
Syria. Foreign journalists have been turned away at the border; local online
reporters have been detained. The quality of Internet and mobile phone
connectivity has been extremely variable, with reports of Net and phone
connections being cut off in selective areas, such as Deraa and Douma. The
Wall Street Journal reported blocks on
social-networking sites, and CPJ has received reports of consistent slowdowns
of home Internet services such as Skype and Google Mail.